tomthiel
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| Thiel Owners Frank - your description suggests the EQ is not working. I suggest getting a test recording. In your room, the deep bass should be big and boomy, and the woofer and midrange should visibly pump much harder than without the EQ. | |
| Thiel Owners I have commented before, but an additional comment might be in order.That is that terminology often obscures the discussion. Some of that obfuscation is purposeful, some is accidental. It may help to insert the word ’polarity’ when it fits. Polari... | |
| Thiel Owners And it may interest you that Dave was Thiel's national sales manager from the late 80s to 90s. He moved his family to Lexington to help Thiel navigate their rapid growth into compatible and excellent dealers that he knew from ARC and Magnepan. He ... | |
| Thiel Owners I want to update my statement about stereo vs bridged Benchmark AHB-2 use. I spoke with John Siau today who said they updated their software to allow current to 1 ohm at full power, with no sacrifice of noise or distortion performance. Any Thiel m... | |
| Thiel Owners 4 @ 100uF is what Jim always used. People here have recommended Mundorf's lytics. Or ask Jeff at Sonic Craft. | |
| Thiel Owners Rob - I knew Tantalums from Bryston's 1980s designs, and checked them out. Not as good as our stock caps. Bryston abandoned them also.Taking the woofer XO closer to the midrange driver would not be good.Some models would benefit from moving the XO... | |
| Thiel Owners BTW: Benchmark's designer John Siau reviewed the XO schematics and specs and fed back the following:CS7.2 stereo or bridged, CS5, 3.7, 3.6, 2.4 stereo mode only. That said, I use bridged nearly exclusively without problems. Seems that class H amps... | |
| Thiel Owners My amps for comparison include an Adcom 555II, a pair of Classe DR9s bridged and not and a pair of Benchmark AHB2s bridged and not. I do not find the Adcom very musical and use it mostly to drive speakers under test. I like the Classe, but the AHB... | |
| Thiel Owners Pray tell, what is the amp? | |
| Thiel Owners stspur - I second what Beetle says, and I'll add my personal perspective. I haven't lived with 3.6s, but I picked up a pair, thanks to this forum, which I measured and listened to and as mentioned was thoroughly impressed. Regarding upgrade in gen... | |
| Thiel Owners Pops - most of my Lexington time was on Georgetown Road, where we started Thiel Audio, around the corner from the Kentucky Horse Park, where I rode my bike nearly every decent day. Secretariat was exemplary of his Bold Ruler line in being interac... | |
| Thiel Owners Pops - nice to see you. I picked up a pair of 3.6s last year and listened, and said wow. Then I measured it and said wow. Then I looked at the crossover and said wow. The 3.6 in 1992 followed the 1990 2.2. For the 3.6, Jim had delved into finite e... | |
| Thiel Owners JAFant - you asked about future models in the queue. I have concentrated my efforts on the 2.2. Next I will address the 3/ 3.5. My priorities include rescuing models in danger of obsolescence, and the 3/ 3.5 are geriatric. It will be a big challen... | |
| Thiel Owners Jon - the house photo you shared is in Georgetown proper. Our farm was (and still is) halfway between Lexington and Georgetown where they subdivided the farms into 10 acre farmlets around 1900. The farm victorian was built in 1903 and was quite de... | |
| Thiel Owners Tom Tweak - these leads are new to me, and fascinating. They are working with ideas like mine, mine being those of an interested, intuitive amateur. So, what can you tell us about your 'energy room'? Sounds fascinating.Tom T |